General plugins I use in Neovim

I define a “general plugin” as a plugin that I use regardless of the filetype I’m editing.

These will add extra functionality for enhancing my Neovim experience.

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I use Which-key for displaying keybindings as I type them. For example if I press my <leader> key and wait a few milliseconds, it will display all keybindings I have set that begin with my <leader> key.

It will also display any marks and registers I have set, when only pressing ' or @ respectively.

use "folke/which-key.nvim"

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Vim-commentary makes it super easy to comment out lines in files using vim motions. So in normal mode you can enter gcc to comment out the current line; or 5gcc to comment out the next 5 lines.

You can also make a visual selection and enter gc to comment out that selected block.

use "tpope/vim-commentary"

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Vim-surround provides me with an extra set of abilities on text objects. It lets me add, remove and change surrounding elements.

For example I can place my cursor over a word and enter ysiw" to surround that word with double quotes.

Or I can make a visual selection and press S" to surround that selection with double quotes.

use "tpope/vim-surround"

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Vim-unimpaired adds a bunch of extra mappings that tpope had in his own vimrc, which he extracted to a plugin.

They include mappings for the [ and ] keys for previous and next items. For example using [b and ]b moves backwards and forwards through your open buffers. Whilst [q and ]q will move you backwards and forwards respectively through your quickfist list items.

use "tpope/vim-unimpaired"